{OT} <phew!>

'Spain remains the most sought after overseas destination'
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=625318>

 

genuine_froggie fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

Not for me .. if finances permitted I'd love a place somewhere in the
Cote d'Azur area. )

--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Take a look at Montenegro in that case.

 

Krusty fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

<fx:takes a look at bank balance first > :'(


--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Ah, well if you can't afford a place in Montenegro, you probably can't
afford a place *anywhere* in France, never mind the Cote d'Azur!

 

Is that with the unexploded munitions in the garden option or without?

 

Krusty fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

note "if finances permitted" ... How many Michelin starred restaurants
are there in Montenegro BTW


--
Steve Parry
K100RS SE & F650
and a 520i SE Touring for comfort

(not forgetting the SK90PY)

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

 

Labour's cheap out there - just hire a couple of peasants, tie 'em to a
stick & poke around a bit - sorted.

 

Three.

 

Especially Paris. TBH, I'm not as in love with Paris as I have been.
Still, I've spent a good fifteen years out of the last twenty here, and
have known and loved this country since I was old enough to stop shitting
in my underpants. A change is coming, I can sense it. I don't believe
that I could leave France, this blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this
France, as I would die, but Paris is becoming a little tiresome: its noise,
its speed, but mostly its aggression. In the métro the other night, SO and
I sat across from a young man, maybe eighteen or nineteen years old, and
possibly of Algerian descent. He sat there with one of the most evil
scowls that I've ever seen, such hatred of the world at large. What had
happened to render this youth so unhappy we shall never know, but SO and I
both agreed that he summed up Paris for us. By contrast, when we're at the
in-laws' in the Bourgogne, we wake to the sound of birds chirping (I don't
recall the last time I heard a bird chirp in Paris), we can dine in the
back garden in silence any time of the day. Would we miss Paris ?
Possibly. France is in our blood and never shall we forsake her, but we're
both considering asking to be 'mutés' to the provinces, come next year. I
fancy Bretagne as it resembles in parts my native Irlande, but she's a
frozen snotter who wants to go to the sud, maybe Perpignan.

 

<snip some kind of a-place-in-the-country bollocks>

What starts in the city ends up in the country.
Have you not noticed that?

 

On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 19:08:34 +0100, genuine_froggie

[des gets scowled at]

You're simply getting older - a lot of people have thoughts of moving
out of cities when their perception of those things that were once
thrilling and part of what they recognised as their own age group become
threatening and / or tiresome.

 

Maybe then the fact that you thought it illuminating to comment on his
racial characteristics suggests a conclusion you have already reached in
your own mind.

 

Maybe Des is really French then.

(BTW, you get my email?)

 

Not if you sent it to this address, its been dead for years.

 

What do you mean? And why does that explain why you saw fit to mention he
was "possibly of Algerian descent"?

 

Why? What on earth does it lend to your opinion of Paris? You didn't mention
his apparent level of wealth, or in fact any other feature of his at all
apart from his youth. Neither did you expand on any socio-political
implications of being Algerian in France's capital, which might be
reasonable to qualify the comment. But you presumably *had* a reason for
specifically mentioning his race in a seperate clause and I'm asking what
that reason was.

 

Well, there seems to be no motive at all, ulterior or otherwise. I'm sure it
was entirely innocent set-dressing on your part.

 

How would I know? You say there was none, so any investigation ends there.

 

Bugger. Have you got another one that I can use? Just a quick question.